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A family firm of organ builders caring for pipe organs throughout the West Country and beyond.

01/11/2026

While Mother was out enjoying herself Lance and Christopher were on a long round trip this week attending to a wide variety of organs. Then in the workshop on Friday for a rest!

01/11/2026

We have a very interesting and unusual project for us in the pipeline. Providing an 8’ En Chamade reed in copper. Here are some pictures from the early stages of the construction of the pipes.

01/11/2026

Mother had a very interesting evening this week while Christopher and I were on our travels. She went to the Cathedral to hear Matt Walters AKA Reductio. A very different sort of organ concert. Two forty minutes halves of continuous music; a combination of pipe organ and electronic music with a very definite beat! Like being at a rave with someone also playing Bach. Surprised no one got up and danced. An extremely clever young man ; controlling the Father Willis and also his electronic equipment. Keep an open mind and go and hear him if you can.

25/10/2026

In praise of the village organ!
Friday was one of our enjoyable local days which we look forward to every autumn visiting Perranporth and St Agnes although we were hampered slightly this year by storm Austen which had brought trees and branches down causing closed roads and various diversions and many power cuts though fortunately just at home and not at any of the places we were visiting for work.
Three unpretentious and reliable instruments; the basic condition good in all three.

25/10/2026

A very pleasant start to the week : a two day tuning and maintenance visit to the Truro Cathedral organ. Lots of in depth tuning and attention to detail. Often visits are constrained by the life of the busy cathedral so it was good to have two quiet days to ourselves. The instrument is generally very reliable and an honour and a pleasure to maintain.

18/10/2026

A nice local day out on Friday; almost as far west as you can go in Cornwall. St Just Church with its delightful 1888 William Hill organ in original condition. We overhauled it some years ago, very reliable. This instrument has to take the top prize for being so very stable after the past few months of extreme weather. Howard, their very skilled organist, tells us that this little
organ enjoyed the heatwaves! Tuned regularly.
Then on to St Just Miner’s Chapel a huge edifice with seating probably for everyone who lives on St Just! We hadn’t seen this instrument for three years but it was quite reasonable. Then to finish the day Pendeen Church : a fifty year old Osmond instrument with subsequent additions. We have only looked after it for a few years ( we are the fifth organ firm they have had this century) but it seems to have kept well this past year.

18/10/2026

A nice change this week to have a project starting the process of fitting slider solenoids to the Great and Choir departments at Corpus Christi Catholic Church Boscombe Bournemouth. A very grand building with a Jesuit community ; midweek masses well attended. The organ is a ‘bit of a trial’! Everything accessed by long ladders. It really needs a very thorough rebuild; we have done bits over the years to keep it ticking along. Some good sounds despite its basic condition.

11/10/2026

Four Cornish Chapels: all a little different.
Leedstown near Hayle can be described as your typical Cornish country village chapel complete with its gallery and usual fine pulpit all crafted in the local carpenter’s shop. The building has a fine granite facade and houses a very neat, compact Griffen & Stroud instrument with good tonal qualities, reliable. We hadn’t seen this one for four years but it had kept up very well.
St Erth Methodist Church , again near Hayle has a Forster & Andrews instrument from the 1860’s with additions by Brewer we think. Highly decorated front pipes and case. The instrument is in a very poor state but playable; not seen for eight years.
The Chapel of St Michael’s Mount with its interesting historic instrument by John Avery 1786 which we overhauled a few years ago. It is very reliable , tuned very regularly and a joy to visit ( apart from the steep climb up to the castle!)
And finally the tiny chapel at the National Trust property at Cotehele ,almost as far east as you can go in Cornwall. Again maintained very regularly.
Here is an interesting statistic for you: wherever you stand in Cornwall you are no more than three or four miles from one of our tunings!

04/10/2026

Another busy week but every week is busy!🤣
It started with having the honour of playing at our local church for their harvest festival service. A well cared for building which keeps a good congregation and a lovely lady vicar. Then a week of Sweetland organs. A new one to us at Bleadon in Somerset; a basic two manual in fair order but someone in the past felt it necessary to put the swell on pneumatic and provide octave couplers. ( fancy Percy Daniels stands accused?). But nevertheless a pleasant instrument.
Then on to St Mary’s Devizes to a very important historic William Sweetland organ of 1855. Tonally unaltered but fancy around 1900 the original pedal board was replaced and the single pedal stop ( Pedal Open) put on pneumatic. We think this was done by Sweetlands. The instrument has been out of use for many years with no maintenance. We managed to get it going with everything working and in tune as a much as the layers of dust and grit would allow. The church is combined with St John’s and the new vicar intends to have the occasional sung service and to use the instrument for special occasions. Of further interest stored at the back of the church is some old casework from a previous St John’s organ. It looks as if it has been stored there for many years !

27/09/2026

The final recital of this years summer season at St Ia is this Wednesday. Make the most of this balmy September weather and treat yourself to a trip to St Ives and the opportunity to hear the fine Hele organ

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St Palais Treworthal Road Perranwell Station
Truro
TR37QB

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